An Argentinian waiter linked to the investigation into One Route star Liam Payne’s loss of life has admitted utilizing cocaine with the singer — however insists he was not his drug seller.
Braian Paiz, 24, instructed TMZ that he did cocaine and drank whiskey with the troubled star simply two days earlier than the singer took a deadly plunge from the third-floor balcony of his Buenos Aires resort room.
“They are saying I’m the seller, that I carried medicine, that I bought them,” he instructed the outlet. “And the reality is that no, no I didn’t promote them.”
Paiz mentioned he and Payne, 31, met on the restaurant the place he labored and bonded over their mutual love of drawing. The 2 partied collectively for 2 nights in a row two days earlier than Payne fell to his loss of life.
The waiter mentioned he noticed medicine scattered “in every single place” within the singer’s resort room, together with the Dove cleaning soap field and tin foil seen in images after Payne’s loss of life. He insisted, nonetheless, that the 2 solely did cocaine and drank whiskey collectively.
He additionally claimed to have by no means taken any cash from Payne and mentioned he declined to take a Rolex watch the star supplied as fee.
“I didn’t settle for something, only a drawing that he drew which was a part of my eyes, nostril and mouth,” Paiz mentioned. “He attracts. I draw. I’m finding out to do it so I had drawings.”
Paiz is one in all three people recognized by Argentinian police of their investigation into the singer’s loss of life, in keeping with TMZ.
All three suspects are being searched for arrest and questioning in reference to prison counts together with “abandonment of an individual adopted by loss of life” and “provide and facilitation of narcotics,” in keeping with the Nationwide Felony and Correctional Prosecutor’s Workplace No. 14.
The primary man accused was with the troubled former One Route member “each day” throughout his keep in Buenos Aires, in keeping with the prosecutor’s workplace.
A second defendant was an worker of the CasaSur Palermo Lodge, who allegedly bought cocaine to Payne throughout his keep.
The third man, described solely as “a drug provider,” is claimed to have additionally supplied the crooner with medicine on two completely different events on Oct. 14 — two days earlier than his deadly plunge.
The clip, shared by TMZ, was a part of a particular “TMZ Investigates: Liam Payne: Who’s to Blame?” airing Monday night on Fox.
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